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Clint was not a journalist. He was a self absorbed, bow tied douche who liked to pontificate. His commentary was never journalistic, just the musings of a delusional self righteous hack, who wouldn't know know a news story if it hit him on the back of the head.

Good Riddance. Maybe the CP will be able to turn the corner without that dead weight.

I don't know who this angry Bob guy is talking about in the previous post. Is that you, BHo?

Clint is a good journalist who knows his way around the city and state's political scene well enough that the CP beats the Tennessean on....well, everything. I hope this doesn't mean the CP is about to go.

Sad.

I manage to disagree with almost all the posts I see above.

* Fletch, to hear you talk of excellence in journalism just reminds me of what you did to Susan Lavery of WPLN when you were Boner's henchman. Unforgivable. She has turned out all right, but Nashville lost that talent because you ran her out. (Yes, some folks here have long memories about such things.)

* Sad, you flatter B-Ho overly. The Woodward post was too well-put and too close to the truth to be his work. To me, it has the authenticity of someone's real experience working with Clint.

* That said, Woodward, you're mean. I can dislike the way a guy did his job while still feeling for him at a time like this. You didn't have to vent those feelings, however widely they are shared.

Clint Brewer is an ignorant ass, he nearly ruined the online version of the NCP, when he first took over. He banned several posters for their political views and purged the archives of their posts. I know, I was one of the first to be thrown out (my username was "Loner") and I have only recently been re-admitted to the NCP forums.

The NCP did have one of the best online posting communities, before the bow-tied buffoon hacked it to pieces.

Clint Brewer should write for some right-wing, white supremacist rag, he does not belong on the pahyroll of any legitimate newspaper, IMHO.

Note to both the recently fired Brewer and Lawson:

Maybe the city wasn't quite as bad in the last 9 years as you two made it out to be...

As they say in the legislature, I'd like to associate myself with the remarks posted by "The City of Nashville" above.

Brewer, like Lawson, lacked insight into Nasvhille, what makes it tick, it's great gains in recent years, and the real underlying dynamnic of our politics. How often have you read an editorial or collumn by these folks at said, WTF are they talking about? Driven by ego, myopia, and a reliance on agaenda-driven sources, these guys just didnt' get it. Lawson cold at leaset write a coherenet paragrpah. Clint, no so much. If content is king, this rag had become the lowliest of paupers. Many, many folks are glad to see them both gone.

City Paper once again has a chance to become the real paper of record in this town. Good luck, Chris, Tom, Geert, Dru, Ken, et al--- we need a strong City Paper.

Homer, you clearly aren't reading both the Monday Citypaper and the Business Journal. The Business Journal is full of press releases. PR firms love it, no one else cares.

Obviously, Homer, one can view some of these things differently. But under Brewer, no one took seriously the paper's editorial persepctive. Some of the news coverage is fine. Rau has gotten much better, William Williams is solid on business, and Amy G. had done great things on the education beat. But the Brewer inflenced opinion peices were a joke, wildly missed the mark, at least when one could understand them, and undermined the paper's effectiveness overall. Rex was often grossly wrong and te patent effort to assert a political presense was pathetic and misguided. Good journalism and a sound editiorial voice would have been welcome. The City Paper once embodied that approach. You'll just have to trust me: I'm not an outlier on this.

Uh, thanks for the hot tip on Rex, Homer. No duh. But Clint started it, edited it, and controlled the content. It was a good idea poorly executed. The point is that the editorial aspects of the paper were sophmorish and generally disregarded by everyone in this town. Doesn't have to be that way. Good stuff is appreciated. Goofy, egotistical stuff is not. Guess we just disagree.